Lots about eating Pink Ladies & loving shadows. Paul O'Mahony walks & talks under a cloudy dark sky

At 8:12pm the light in Cork has almost faded away - walking in the dark is tricky - there are horses in fields & stars overhead. Light matters of course - and how do we measure the speed of light? And why is it not possible for anything to travel faster than light? There is so much Paul O'Mahony doesn't know & understand.

You hesr how difficult it is to hitch-up & park a horsebox - How my daughter took charge - How Louis barked his way into Paul's bad books

With Louis his llewellen setter, Paul O'Mahony talks about the passing of his friend Jarla's brother-in-law - and Kevin William's birthday - and there is nearly a terrible accident. Thank goodness Louis is alive

On Friday evening around 21:30 it was dark & dry. The dog Louis & the cat Puma went for a walk. None of us knew what was to happen.

After leaving home with dog, filling the car with unleaded petrol, watching the rain - surprisingly it's dry enough to read all about Wordsworth's walking & poetry. Lots about mushrooms in this episode

Read while walking in woods with dog Louis - Thomas de Quincy + William Hazlitt + Coleridge + Bunyon + Dante + Walpole + Thomas Gray + Rousseau + Tom Paine + Edmond Burke + Mary Woolstonecraft + William Godwin - all are brought into focus as a way of putting the Wordsworths in context

Imagine a fireside chat shifted to an armchair in Cork - this is all about today's headlines - all reports based on the RTE News App - with a little commentary by Paul O'Mahony

Walking & talking around an estate in Glanmire Cork - on a windy night - an umbrella for protection - You hear Paul meet a couple of lads - Eric Chandler gets a mention - TS Eliot & Walt Whitman too - "Leaves of Curiosity" may become title of a collection of poetry. The dog's delinquent

Reading from Rebecca Solnit's book Wanderlust on a walk - Louis meets a Golden Lab - and Jane Austin has her say - is this what we've been waiting for?